secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     SOUTHERN CO (SO)
CIK:        0000092122
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-05-24T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000092122-24-000068
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.15
Item codes: 5.07, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Southern Company annual meeting: directors elected, supermajority amendment fails despite 98.76% support
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- All 13 director nominees elected with between 95.24% and 99.48% of votes cast.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved with 95.28% of votes cast.
- Ratification of Deloitte as auditor for 2024 approved with 97.37% of votes cast.
- Amendment to reduce supermajority vote to majority required two-thirds of outstanding shares; received 66.47% – not approved.
- Stockholder proposals on simple majority vote and GHG targets each failed.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212224000068/0000092122-24-000068-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212224000068/so-20240522.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000092122-24-000068

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